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TheHitchhikerb PDF
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by
Roald Dahl
drove on.
greyish-coloured
I asked him.
go?" I asked.
saying nothing.
that."
jacket
with
enormous
me
Volkswagen Minibus. . . .
and me both".
told him.
rather lamely.
motorcycle
years
when
drivers
kept
asking
and
leaned
the
machine
asked sharply.
breeches
oily as haircream.
were
skin-tight
around
his
"That's
his hand.
book of tickets.
and mocking.
"Seventy, I said.
speed
more
than
likely
,"
the
cop
"Name?" he snapped.
"Address?"
policeman said.
"Fourteen,
Windsor
Lane,
"A what?"
"An 'odcarrier."
my passenger.
speedin'."
man asked.
"Yes, officer.
wouldn't
alarmed.
it?"
"Is
it
something
you're
cigarette.
is.
surgeon or a watchmaker.
eye,
and
the
speed
with
which
he
could roll a
Amazing," I said.
The
cigarette
disappeared.
was
It
was
remarkable performance.
lit.
The
lighter
altogether
to be late," he said.
gone.
huffily.
triumphant.
said.
he asked, grinning.
sapphire
it
ring
with
pearls
around
of
pickpockets
never.
"I
me," he said.
Royal
"Now there's
College
another
of
lovely piece
Surgeons
or
the
know
get
you
caught.
don't,"
he
Fingersmiths
answered.
Archbishop of Canterbury.
remember
their
own
names."
"What's